The synopsis of the article is that it's technically tricky to enable cell phones but not impossible. The problem is that cell phones hit hundreds of towers fro

The synopsis of the article is that it's technically tricky to enable cell phones but not impossible. The problem is that cell phones hit hundreds of towers from a mile up. Instead enabled planes would have a local cell and use radio noise to block traffic to ground based towers. The main reason the ban has remained in place is public opposition to sitting next to someone talking on a cell phone. Which makes sense to me. Air travel is hardly comfortable.